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In Rails 3, the syntax for the routes file has changed significantly. Rizwan Reza wrote an article about the new dsl - and its one of the best we have seen. It reads like it should be one of the articles up at Rails Guides.

Express, from Vision Media, is a sinatra-inspired framework built using node.js. If you are a sinatra user or a JavaScript Jockey, this is a tool to check out. At first glance, it looks like you could take a sinatra app and convert it to express by adding parentheses and semi-colons.

Almost too small to mention, but at the same time a great little tweak to rubygems that could become necessity, John Nunemaker has release GemWhoIs. It gives you a whois command on rubygems that tells you some basic stats about the gem you are asking about, because "gem names are like domains in the 90's"

Contribute to a project on GitHub? You should check out this awesome series of graphc from Franck Cuny. Franck took a bunch of data from various projects and the commit history of thousands of people, and created a graph showing the interconnectedness of various laguage communities, various projects, the patterns of contributions from individuals and geographic region, and created something 'Edward Tufte'-sque.

Arild Shirazi has released a simple little utility that simply recurses down a directory tree, including everything it finds. This is useful to make sure your rcov tests find dead code, and on JRuby projects where you have to include a laundry list of Java dependencies.

You got your Maven repo in my Rubygems source! Plus the Visual Guide to NoSQL, sentient_user, Rit, Apple Push Notifications, hosting a CMS on Heroku, and more in this “Won’t you be my neighbor day” edition of Ruby5.